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Twentieth Century Fruits 



THE NEW PLUMCOTS 



The Plumcots are absolutely new fruits, first produced on my farms 

 some twenty years ago. A great amount of care and expense have been 

 expended on them since and now I have the pleasure of announcing these 

 three plumcots which will be widely grown in all countries where apricots 

 or plums can be grown. 



New Plumcot— The "Apex" 



This wonderful new fruit ripens with the very earliest of all the 

 early plums, long before any other good plum or apricot (here June 1.5th), 

 which would bring its season about three weeks earlier inland. The 

 tree is a stout, compact, upright grower and has never failed to carry 

 a full crop, even where apricots of all kinds cannot be grown and in 

 seasons when many plums were failures. The fruit is extremely handsome 

 and very large for an early fruit, globular, five and one-half to sis inches 

 around each way, beautiful deep pink or light crimson; freestone; riesh 

 honey-yellow, firm, rich, aromatic, apricot-like; wholly unequaled in its 

 combination of size, beauty, productiveness and quality by any other early 

 fruit of any kind. 



Trees, each $3; two, $5; per ten, $20. 



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